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Welcome to Arlington Babe Ruth (ABR) baseball, a league for players between the ages 4 - 12. This website was established to keep our players, coaches, volunteers, parents, family and friends of ABR players up to date with the latest league information.
Monday, June 22
Arlington to Host Southeast Regional Tournament
Arlington Babe Ruth is honored to host the 2009 Southeast Regional Tournament for 10U at Barcroft Park in Arlington. The winner earns a trip to the Babe Ruth/Cal Ripken 10U World Series. Play begins on Thursday July 23, and the championship game is scheduled for Sunday July 26.
Monday, June 22
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The season ending single elmination tournaments for our AAA and Major leagues finished up with four championship games on Saturday, June 13th at Barcroft Park. Congratulations to our tournamenet champions and to all our teams for a successful, fun and damp 2009 season!!!
2009 Tournament Winners
AAA American - Optimist Pirates (Matechak)
AAA National - Optimist Yankees (Lowen)
Majors American - Mets (Thein)
Majors National - Chandler Plumbing Phillies (Juliano)
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Monday, June 16
2009 Raffle Winners
Arlington Babe Ruth's Annual Fund Raising Raffle drawing was held Saturday, June 13th at 12:00pm down at Barcroft park. First prize winner of $1,000 went to Sarah Cabalu. Winner of the $250 second prize went to Samuel Freericks. Third prize of $100 went to R. Resnick.
Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to all who helped make this necessary fund raiser for Arlington Babe Ruth a success!
2009 Arlington Doc Bonaccorso Summer Classic Tournament Registration
Arlington Babe Ruth Cal Ripken Division is again sponsoring the Doc Bonaccorso Summer Classic youth baseball tournament at Barcroft Park in Arlington, Virginia. The tournament will begin on Thursday July 30 and conclude on Sunday August 2, 2009. (Note: this is one week later than usual.)
The tournament will use Babe Ruth Cal Ripken Division rules. We will offer four brackets. For ages 9U, 10U and 11U, we will play on 60/45 fields. For the 12U division, we will play on 70/50 fields.
The tournament is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Robert J. Bonaccorso, affectionately known as "Doc," who started Arlington Babe Ruth Baseball in 1980 and served as league President for over 20 years. The tournament is supported by Arlington County Department of Parks and Recreation.
Competition will be limited to house league all-star or travel teams -- full-time travel or AAU teams will not be permitted to enter.
We are striving for a fun, low intensity tournament to end your season. There will be a three-game minimum (weather permitting) with individual player trophies (max 15 per team) awarded to the first, second and third place teams in each division. We will also present an MVP trophy to one player in each division, based on nominations from the coaches.
If you have a team interested in playing in the tournament, please fill out our on-line registration form by clicking here. We encourage you to register as soon as you can. We will take no more than eight (8) teams per bracket, first come first served. Last year, we had a waiting list at several age groups.
The entry fee is $350 per team. You can pay your team's registration fee on-line using Paypal. If you prefer to mail your check, please make the check payable to Arlington Babe Ruth and mail it to:
Arlington Babe Ruth
P.O. Box 5102,
Arlington, VA 22205.
If you have additional questions about the Doc Bonaccorso Summer Classic, please email the Tournament Director, Carol Ann Siciliano, at:
carolannsiciliano@rcn.com
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Season in full Swing!
Saturday April 18th marked the opening day of Arlington Babe Ruth's Spring 2009 season. ABR has over 100 teams and nearly 1,400 boys and girls playing in five levels of play, Blastball, T-ball, machine pitch, AAA and the Majors.
Opening day turned out with beautiful weather, and the season got off to a great start, though the weather since has dampened things just a bit. However, we're all looking forward to a wonderful and fun filled season of baseball.
Good luck to one and all for a great spring season!
Lost and Found
We are renewing our Lost and Found Message Board this year. If you have lost or found an item at a recent game or practice, you can post that news to our message board. Just click on the lost and found graphic or click here to go the Lost and Found posts. You can also click on the "Message Boards" link in the left hand menu of every ABR page to get there.
Here's hoping that lots of misplaced articles find their way home!
Baseball Fundementals & Sample Practice Plans Available!
ABR Our old friend Jim Butler has developed some practice plans suitable for use by Blastball, T-ball, A, and AA coaches. If you're having a hard time organizing your practices, these handy plans are just the ticket. ABR has also posted a short handout on baseball fundementals. Check them out in the handouts section of the website.
Rainout and Inclement Weather Information
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Arlington County Weather line: (703) 228-4715
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Only Majors and AAA league games will try to be made up, so keep good thoughts for nice weather!
Send us E-mail!
If you have any comments, questions or suggested improvements for the web site, please e-mail the webmaster by clicking below:
Arlington Babe Ruth Webmaster
ArlBabeRuth@yahoo.com
Membership Required!
We welcome any and all comers to the ABR website, but access to our team pages and rosters is restricted to members only. This is a security measure on our part so parents will feel more secure about having information and pictures of their children posted on the website. Of course, no security measures are foolproof, but we do what we can.
If you are an ABR coach, parent, player or fan, you may fill out our membership registration form that will ask you some general information questions. Please also indicate your child's name, team, and coach. Your membership request will be forwarded to the webmaster. Once the webmaster has your request, you will be approved if you have provided all the appropriate information. If the webmaster needs more info, you can expect an email asking for additional information. Once you respond with the answers, you will be granted membership. You may also email the ABR webmaster at the time you register with this information (along with the username you choose when you applied for membership) and your application will be approved a little more quickly.
Thank you for visiting the ABR website. We hope you enjoy your stay and appreciate your forbearance with our membership rules.
Website Information and Navigation
On the left hand side of each page of the ABR website are links to the rest of the pages of the site. Click here for a comprehensive rundown on where each of the navigation links will take you.
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